An Irish Country Kitchen

British and Irish had 'got used to' a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror. At the heart of that campaign lies one man: Gerry Adams. How did a man who condoned atrocities that resulted in numbers of civilian deaths also become the guiding light behind the peace process?

‘We were almost a self-contained republic in the 8th Battalion area.’Patrick O’Sullivan, Irish Republican Army officer, Cork 1919-1921. Based on almost seven thousand pages of witness statements collected by the Irish Army from 1947 to 1958, this book is a day by day account of the War of Independence in County Cork.